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Seventh-day Adventist Publishing Association · Battle Creek, Mich. · May 10, 1877

FromReview and Herald, Vol. 49, No. 19.

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LAST DAYS OF VOLTAIRE.

The following I find in the Massachusetts Missionary Magazine for May, A. D. 1805:—

ANECDOTE.

“The physician of the Duke of Orleans, being sent for to attend Voltaire in his illness at Paris, the deistical philosopher said to him, ‘Sir, I desire you will save my life. I will give you half of my fortune if you will lengthen out my days only six months. If not I shall go to the devil.’” A. S.